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Elaine Brown
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Elaine Brown is a singer, songwriter, author & activist, who ... headed the Black Panther party in the 1970's. During that time, she recorded two albums of her songs arranged by Horace Tapscott and backed by the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. The first of those two albums, Seize the Time, has just been reissued on CD. Elaine will be here in LA during the 3rd week in
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The case of United States vs. Edward and Elaine Brown was not about income taxes. For more than a dozen years, they simply asked the Internal Revenue Service to show them the law that specifically makes them liable to pay the federal income tax, all the while stating that if the government could do so, they would gladly pay all income taxes and never question the law again. Instead, the Internal Revenue Service ignored their requests, year after year, although the Browns were constitutionally entitled to an answer. Then, in 2004, after never responding to any of the Browns’ countless requests, the Internal Revenue Service, along with a SWAT team, US Marshals, state and local police, raided Elaine’s office building and took each of the Browns, by force, into custody.
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From an early age, Elaine Brown had a series of adolescent and young-adult love affairs with black and Jewish middle- and upper-class men. In 1965 she left Philadelphia for Los Angeles, where she worked as a cocktail waitress. While there, she met Jay Kennedy, a social activist and a member of the American Comunist Party. Kennedy's radical views were influential in leading Brown towards the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party founded in1966 byHuey P. Newton.When Newton in 1974 was indicted for murder and fled to Cuba,heappointed Elaine Brown to runthe Party in his absence.
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Elaine Brown, representing herself and her husband, Ed, hand crafted over fifty motions during the course of their trial. All legal experts who read the motions agreed that they were flawlessly written and all within the scope of the law and in accordance with established court procedures. All but a handful of the motions were denied, many without objection from the prosecution or without explanation. The Browns were not allowed witnesses, to present evidence, or to cite case law. The jury was ... instructed to return a verdict based solely on whether or not the Browns paid federal income taxes or filed tax returns for the years in question. Also, the Browns were technically not charged with a crime, they were charged with two penalty clauses.
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Elaine Brown became, in 1974, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party. Today, as an activist, writer and popular lecturer, Brown upholds the original vision of the Panthers and the survival programs they developed like the Free Breakfast Program for Children, free health clinics, Senior Services, among others. She lectures on the vision of an inclusive and egalitarian society, focusing on resolving problems of race, gender oppression and class disparity in the United States.
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Elaine Brown was born in London in 1961. She studied at the University of Reading 1980-84 and Cyprus College of Art 1985-86. Group exhibitions include New Contemporaries 1984 ICA London (touring) 1984, City Racing London 1985, Gloria Gallery Nicosia Cyprus 1986, New Academy Gallery London 1988, Pixley Street Artists Copenhagen Place London 1993, Espace Vega Paris 1995, Harriet Green Gallery London 1996, Watermans London 1997 and AAH London 2005-06. Solo shows at Turco - British Cultural Centre Ankara Turkey 1989, Harriet Green Gallery London 1995, Five Princelet Street London 2001 and Wolfson College Oxford 2003.
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